Photos - an old Tank Engine, and an old Cathedral.

2014/12/27 15:40:06

'Vintage' processing treatment I gave to an image I took at the local Severn Valley Railway heritage line:

'1501' is officially categorised as a Class 1500 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive.

This particular model was purchased by The SVR in 1970 and lovingly restored to its former glory and to full working order.

Built in 1949, 1501 was in service with British Railways (and subsequently British Rail) until she was withdrawn in 1961 and subsequently sold to the National Coal Board for use at Coventry Colliery.

I'm not sure I'm totally sold on the 'vintage' look, but it does seem to add a little something to this image. By way of comparision, here's the original, unprocessed (RAW to .jpeg converted) photo:

I took this before I got the Photomatix HDR software, so I deliberately underexposed this single shot so as not to allow the sky to blow out; it's generally possible with a RAW file to recover detail from underexposed shadow area, but next to impossible to return detail to any area that's blown out to 'solid' white. I guess a good analogy might be digital clipping an audio signal subsequently being impossible to correct as opposed to a low level high noise recording, which although not perfect, could be processed to recover the original sound.

This image of Worcester Cathedral has had a little HDR treatment to restore some of the shadow detail:

2014/12/27 16:00:37

ampfixer

I really want to visit the UK before I get too old to bother.

ps. That's a compliment Steve.

2014/12/27 16:31:32

Rain

Great shots and great job, Steve!

2014/12/27 16:43:34

bapu

I really want to see Worcester before I get too old.
(and Ruby too).

2014/12/27 20:04:05

SteveStrummerUK

Thank you gents

Here are a couple more I've finished up tonight.

This is a HDR-processed single-image of the platform of Kidderminster Station on the SVR:

And this is a HDR three-image composite from somewhere in the Lake District (I'll check my notes and find out where exactly, but I think it's somewhere near Buttermere):